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02-07-2003, 06:44 PM

Larry Caldwell

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RR Wheat - but who wants it? (was GM German Wheat Trials...)

(Torsten Brinch) writes:

And here, Larry Caldwell appears to have fallen in love with RR wheat
so much that he'd like to suggest there are significant gains in the
safety of eating and perceptible changes in the flavor of bread by
using roundup in RR wheat vs using weed control in wheat as it is done
currently.

There are certainly environmental gains to be made through RR wheat. Not
only does it allow no-till control of erosion, it cuts the herbicide
application to a fraction of conventional use. Wild oat is not the only
invasive grass in wheat that it is difficult to control, and the required
herbicides are highly toxic.

Here in the PNW, we have to deal with wild oat, yellow foxtail, green
foxtail, italian ryegrass, downy brome, persian darnel, black grass and
wind grass. Getting a clean field can require applications at many
different stages of growth, and getting rid of a jointed goat grass
infestation in a wheat field is virtually impossible without taking the
field out of production. RR wheat is the answer to the both the
farmers' and the environmentalists' prayers.

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